Brussel is een schaalmodel van het beste wat de westerse cultuur tussen 1850 en 1914 te bieden had. Het was een artistiek kruitvat, maar evengoed een laboratorium waar de nieuwe maatschappij vorm kreeg. In de hoofdstad van het jonge koninkrijk België – toentertijd de derde economische wereldmacht – werden oude vormen en gedachten vakkundig gefileerd en door andere vervangen: van symbolisme en art nouveau tot meedogenloze avant-garde, van socialistisch veldwerk tot anarchistisch oproer. I...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a ...